The Effects of Specialized Footwear in Osteoarthritis

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Ages Eligible for Study:

Child, Adult, Senior

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Able and willing to give informed consent and to comply with the study protocol and follow-up instructions.

Symptomatic OA of the knee, as defined by the American College of Rheumatology's Clinical Criteria for Classification and Reporting of OA of the Knee. If symptoms are bilateral, then the knee identified by the subject as more symptomatic will serve as the index knee.

Ambulatory knee pain, defined as the presence of greater than 30 mm of pain while walking on a flat surface (corresponding to question 1 of the visual analog format of the WOMAC.

Radiographic OA of the study knee of grade 2 or 3, as defined by the modified Kellgren and Lawrence (K-L) grading scale.